plangent

adj

1. Having a loud, mournful sound.

   “[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.”

   “Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.”

   “[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.”

   “In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.”

2. (rare)Beating, dashing, as waves.

   “What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?”